Subway sleeps
#nofilter #ttc #greenwood #subway #sunset #majesty #toronto #eastender (at Greenwood Yard)
In 1878 Peter Paterson, who lived at his “Blantyre Estate”, built an amusement park down the hill called Victoria Park. It had rides, attractions and a steamboat to bring tourists from Toronto.
The popularity of the park, like others along the lake, soon faded. In 1906 Henry P. Eckardt (who built the estate at 1 Fallingbrook Road) turned it into greenspace and started the Victoria Park Forest School for children to learn outdoors.
The school closed by 1932 for the construction of the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant. Designated as a heritage property for its Art Deco style, it now processes 950 million L/day as Toronto’s largest treatment plant.
#torontoheritage #scarboroughactually #19thcentury #history #blantyre #victoriapark #placenamescomefromsomewhere (at R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant)
Cheese Map by Jennifer Davick US Dairy Export Council to support the Think USA Dairy campaign
Interior with reading woman (1919). Karl Harald Alfred Broge (Danish, 1870-1955). Oil on canvas.
As with fellow Danish artists Carl Vilhelm Holsøe and Vilhelm Hammershøi, Broge painted simple domestic interior scenes. Such scenes, like this work, became increasingly popular among Danish painters as the country became more industrial, with implications of refuge as one partakes in peaceful normal activities in the home.
Naked Tree made from a mold of a painted tree with dark beer, prunes, and beechwood cream. http://bit.ly/1MDfcKd
In search of some Autumn inspiration? Up now on theartofplating.com is this beautiful recipe that brings the flavors of squash and pear together from none other than creative genius, chef Daniel Humm. http://bit.ly/1PqsCfX
Whenever I’m stuck in a rut I draw these little blob heads. #sketchbook #faces #portait #portrait of no one #blob
Museum Interior. Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes (Canadian, 1859-1912). Oil on panel.
Painted when the young Forbes was a student at the South Kensington Art Schools, of which she wrote; ’…Most of my companions were beyond me in age and development. But the Museum was a treasure house of inexhaustible delight and although my artistic taste has passed through many phases since those days, I find that many things which drew me most strongly then are potent to move me still…”
Une Citoyenne (1879). Albert Edelfelt (Finnish, 1854-1905). Oil.
“The worst thing is that I am so fed up with these so-called Parisian subjects, these little women (petites femmes), that I can no longer bear to see without thinking of all the wretched painting, superficial and cute, that one has to do with them. The models look all the same to me; I can achieve neither veracity or character when I paint them; their poses, always the same, annoy me, and that false prettyish elegance drives me insane.”
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After Rehearsal (c.1922). Annie Rose Laing (Scottish, 1869-1946). Oil on canvas. Glasgow Museums.
Laing’s paintings are almost without exception bright and bathed in sunlight and she delighted in painting interior scenes. Here, musical instruments are the focus as the musicians have finished their rehearsal and are taking a break.
Dementor
second part of Christmas gift for my cousin, this one is for The Prisoner of Azkaban :)